Razor blade magazine



A. TUERFF ET AL RAZOR'BLADE MAGAZINE Nov.' 25, 1947.

Filed April l0, 1945 Patented Nov. 25, 1947 FEICE RAZOR' BLADE MAGAZINEArthur Tuerff, South Orange, and Leonard C. Lotz, Newark, N. J

Application April 10, 1945, Serial No. 587,530

This invention relates to improvements vin razor blade dispensingmagazines; and the invention has reference, more particularly, to anovel construction of magazine adapted to hold a plurality of razorblades of the double edged, slotted and notched corner type, saidmagazine having means for dispensing said blades one lby one therefrom.

This invention has for an object to provide a novel razor bladedispensing magazine comprising a main casing or housing provided with ablade ejecting means and a separable tray for holding a stack of razorblades; said tray being insertable into said casing or housing inposition to operatively relate the stack of blades carried thereby tothe blade ejecting means of the casing or housing; said tray having anopening in the bottom thereof, and said casing or housing having springmeans adapted to project through the said tray opening into engagementwith the stack of blades carried by the tray. whereby to yieldably urgesaid blades toward and subject to the operation of the blade ejectingmeans of the casing or housing.

The invention has for a further object to provide a tray to carry andsupport a stack of razor blades for insertion into a blade dispensingmagazine, said tray having means to position the blades therein withtheir sharpened edges held in spaced away relation to the tray sides,and

yet in such manner that an uppermost blade of the stack may be freed tobe moved longitudinally outward through a discharge way with which anend wall of the tray is provided.

The invention has for a further object to provide a separable bladestack carrying tray which is insertable in a blade dispensing magazine,whereby said tray per se may serve both as the blade holding element ofa package suitable for commercial distribution of razor blades, as wellas a cooperative part of a blade dispensing magazine for use by theconsumer.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularlyenumerated, will be understood from the following detailed descriptionof the same.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a razor blade dispensing magazine accordingto this invention, with the separable blade stack holding tray withdrawntherefrom; and Fig, 2 is a longitudinal sectional View, taken on line2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front end elevational view of the dispensing magazine withthe separable blade s claims. (ol. 20s- 16) .rides in said slot 2l.

stack holding tray operatively assembled therewith; Fig. 4 is alongitudinal sectional view, taken on line 4 4 in Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 isa transverse sectional View, taken on line 5-5 in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view similar to that of Fig. 4, butshowing the ejector means operated to eject a blade from the magazine.

Fig. 7 is a sectional View of the tray per se showing the blades of astack thereof separated one from another by intermediate separator orspacer elements.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the above describedviews, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, the casing or housing of the dispensingmagazine comprises a hollow body formed by a top wall I0, side'walls Il,a bottom wall I2 and end walls I3. Fitted and secured within the upperinterior of said hollow body, to underlie the top wall I@ thereof, is anendwise open tray guide shell comprising a top wall I4, side walls I5,and longitudinal tray supporting ledges I6 which extend inwardly inopposed relation respectively from the lower margins of said guide shellside walls I5. The upper end of the rearward end wall I3 of the casingor housing terminates at the level of said tray supporting ledges I6 ofthe tray guide shell, thus leaving the rearward end of the latter openfor insertion therein and withdrawal therefrom of a blade stack carryingtray member to be subsequently described. The upper end ofthe forwardend wall I3 of the casing or housing terminates somewhat above the levelof said tray supporting ledges I6 of the guide shell, thus providing astop portion I1 to limit inward movement of an inserted tray member,whereby to predetermine the operative assembled relation of the latterto the interior of the casing or housing.

The top wall I0 of the casing or housing is provided with a downwardlyopen, longitudinally y and centrally extending channeled portion I3, theinterior of which provides a slideway E9 in which is mounted an ejectorbolt 2Q. The top ofsaid channeled portion i8 is provided with a suitablydisposed slot ZI of a length corresponding to the scope of reciprocablemovement desired to be permitted to the ejector bolt til. Said .ejectorbolt is 'provided with an exteriorly projecting actuator button 22, theshank of which Said ejector bolt is supported by the top wall i4 of saidtray guide shell. At its forward end, said ejeeter belt 2@ isprevidedwith a dependent push-piece 23 which extends and moves through aslotway 2li with which .for manipulating the tray member.

The separable tray member of the dispensing 5 magazine comprises anupwardly open tray body formed by a bottom wall 26 and peripheral sideand end walls 21 and 28. The rearward end Wall 28 is provided withI anexternal handle piece 2.9

width of the tray member exceeds somewhatI the width of razor blades Bto be stacked and carried therein, whereby, when said blades arevdeposited` centrally therein, the sharp edges of said blades will be spacedaway from and out of contact with 175 the side walls 21 of the traymember. The bottom wall 26 of the tray member is providedy with` a.`longitudinal central opening 3D of less width than, the width of theblades B. Struck up from the tray bottom wall 26 are laterally opposedupstand- 20 ing blade retainerilugs 3|, between which rea-r.- ward"reduced end portions sb. of thev blades are disposed, whereby the bladesare held against lat.- eral shifting or displacement. Likelaterallyopposed upstanding bladeretainer lugs 32 arealso 25 struck fromthe tray bottom.wall Ztl` to embrace forward reduced endportions b of:theblades for like purpose. The forward. end wall 28=` of` the tray iscut away between the sidewalls 2l: to

provide a blade discharge passage 33ncorrespond- 30 ing in height to thethickness of a blade. Said forwardk blade retainerA lugs 32- terminate..at the level of said dischargepassage 33; sothat a blade B, when liftedto aligned relation tosaid: dis.-

charge passage 33may clear the upper extrem- 3.5

ities of said retainerlugs 32., so as to pass thereover, when itisoutwardly moved endwise through said discharge passage 33.

Fixedly secured: to the bottom wall I2 of the casing or housing is thebase 34 of a lift` spr-ingV 40 member comprising an upwardly andforwardly inclined spring arm `35 terminating in downwardly curvednosing portion 36; from which nosing portion extends a finger piece 31,which projects exteriorly from the casing or housing through laperpendicular slot orway 38 with-which the forward end wall I3 of thelatter-is provided.

To assemble a blade loaded tray member=with and in operative relation tothe casing` or housing of the dispensing magazine, said tray member isinsertedV through the rearwardly open end of the tray guide shell, andis slid forwardly therein until its forward end is stopped against thestop portion II. To permit such inward passage of the tray member, thespring arm 35 and nosing 55 36 of the lift spring member is depressed bymeans of the fingerpiece 31, to withdraw the nosing 36 out of the pathof ingoing tray movement (see Fig. 2). After the tray member,v is

-lodged in operative assembled relation to` and within the casing orvhousing, said liftrv spring member is released, whereby upwardflexingmovement of the spring arm 35 carries the nosing 36 upwardly through thebottom opening 30 of the tray member,` andA into up-thrusting engagementwith the vunderside of the stack of blades B deposited within said traymember.

Such up-thrustingeffect o f the liftspring member lifts the stackofblades B bodily,iso thatfthe uppermost blade of the stack is stoppedagainstthe top wall I4 ofthe tray guideshell, andis-thus positioned inalignmentv with and in endwise opposition to the discharge passagen33 ofthe tray member and above the extremities ofl the retainerlugs- 32, andso that the push-piece23fof '(5 The internal l0 4 the ejector bolt 20 isentered in the slot s of said uppermost blade (see Fig. 4).

To discharge the uppermost blade from the dispensing magazine, theoperator pushes forward the acutator button 22 of the ejector bolt 20,thereby sliding the same forwardly and outwardly from the casing orhousing. As the ejecter. bolt, 20 ishils advancedhe push-piece 23thereof, which .islodged inthe slot s off the uppermost blade, as thesame advances, first abuts the forward end of said slot s, and as itsadvance continues, thereupon pushes the uppermost blade outwardly fromthe forward end of the dispensing,` magazine seeFig. 6). The projectedend of said; uppermost blade is now accessible to be grasped by theoperators fingers, and thereby may, be pulled outwardly and away, Whenthe uppermost blade is thus removed, the thrust of the lift springmember raises the stack of' blades so that the next blade is alignedwith the tray member discharge passage 33a Asthe ejector bolt 20isretracted to normal initial positiongrthe chamfered underside 25 ofthepush-piece 23 willride over the blade stack, and will momentarilydepress the latter against the up-thrusting tension of the lift springmember, sol that', when initial positionof said push-piece 23 isregained, the same will enter the slot s of the then uppermost blade,ready for a repetition ofthe ejecting operationsI nextV effective uponsaid blade. 'I he described lbladeV ejecting operations mayv be repeateduntil-thebottom most blade of thestacknis reachedV and ejected,whereupon the empty tray member may be withdrawn,reloadedvwithblades andreplaced inthe dispensing magazine, or a new loaded tray substitutedforthe empty tray.

It may be desired' to modify the stackedr ail-,- rangement of razorblades B d .eposited in the tray member, by inserting between successiveblades thereof a correspondingly slotted separator element. S` (see Fig.7'); iny which case the push-piece 23 of1 the ejector bolt will besized; to engage both an uppermost.. blade ,B and, aA separator elementS underlying the same, so. asito simultaneously ej ect,- both. Thiswould. have the advantage of permitting theuseof agreater. areaofjpushface surfacein connection with the pushpiece 23, so that lessprecise fitting-and. sizing of the latter part correspondingly tothethickness of a blade would be required, vthe advantage of which will beobvious when very thinrazor-blades of but a, few thousandths of an inchin thickness are to be operatedupon. I

Advantages of the provisionv of` the-*separable blade stack carryingvtray, byl which this invention isrcharacterized', are that said traynot-only is easy to load, may be. conveniently formed to retain theblades. in position whereby their sharp cutting edges are inno riskofcontacting or being contacted by surfaces likelyto injure ordull thesame, but alsosuch trayfmember may be madeof relatively cheapmaterial,andv may` be utilized both as acomponent blade Qarryingpartoi"lr a commercial package in whichvtheblades are distributed to theconsumer, as well asacooper ative. part of theblade dispensing magazinefor convenient use by the consumer. I

Having now described our invention, we claim:

l. A. dispensing magazine, for razor, blades of the double edged,slotted and notched corner -type comprisingz a` casing for-med bytop,bottom-,side and, front andwrear end walls,v an endwise-.open trayguideshellfixedbeneath the casing topwall, said' sliellemprsine e topWall;l sidewalls and tray supporting ledges extending from the latter,

said casing rear wall having a tray admission opening aligned with theinterior of said tray shell, a inanipulatable longitudinallyreciprocable blade ejector bolt above said guide shell top Wall, saidcasing top wall having a slideway means for said ejector bolt, theejector bolt having a pushpiece dependent from its forward portion, saidguide shell top wall having a slotway to accommodate said push-piece,the casing front end wall terminating above the guide shell ledges,whereby to provide both a tray stop and a blade exit opening, a tray forholding a stack of blades, said tray being removably insertable withinsaid tray guide shell, whereby to dispose its contained blade stack inposition to permit engagement of the ejector bolt push-piece, asnormally retracted, with the forward end of the Slot of an uppermostblade of said stack, the forward end of said tray having a bladedischarge passage at the level of the uppermost blade of said stack, alift spring member iixed in the lower portion of said casing, said trayhaving a bottom opening through which said lift spring member may engagethe contained blade stack, whereby to yieldably upthrust the same toalign an uppermost blade with the blade discharge passage of said trayand in position to be operatively engageable, as aforesaid, by saidejector push-piece said lift spring member having a finger piece at itsfree end, and a casing end wall having a vertical slot through whichsaid nger piece accessibly projects, whereby said lift spring member maybe depressed out of the path of movementl of said tray into and out ofsaid tray guide shell.

2. A razor blade magazine as dened in claim 1, wherein said tray isprovided with means to hold the contained blades against shiftingdisplacement therein comprising a pair of laterally opposed upstandingrearward retainer lugs adapted to engage corner notched rear endportions of the blades and a pair of laterally opposed upstandingforward retainer lugs adapted to engage co-rner notched forward endportions of the blades, said forward retainer lugs terminating below theplane of the blade discharge passage of said tray so as to free anuppermost blade therefrom.

3. A dispensing magazine for razor blades of the double edged, slo-ttedand notched corner type comprising a casing formed by top, bottom, sideand front and rear end walls, an endwise open tray guide shell fixedbeneath the casing top Wall, said shell comprising a top wall, sidewalls and tray supporting ledges extending from the latter, said casingrear wall having a tray admission opening aligned with the interior ofsaid tray shell, a manipulatable longitudinally reciprocable bladeejector bolt above said guide shell top wall, said casing top wallhaving a slideway means for said ejector bolt, the ejector bolt having apush-piece dependent from its forward portion, said guide shell top wallhaving a slotway to accommodate said push-piece, the casing front endwall terminating above the guide shell ledges, whereby to provide both atray stop and a blade eXit' opening, a tray for holding a stack ofblades, said tray being removably insertable within said tray guideshell, whereby to dispose its contained blade stack in position topermit engagement of the ejector bolt push-piece, as normally retracted,with the forward end of the slot of an uppermost blade of said stack,the forward end of said tray having a blade discharge passage at thelevel of the uppermost blade of said stack, a lift spring member xed inthe lower portion of said casing, said tray having a bottom openingthrough which said lift spring member may engage the contained bladestack, whereby to yieldably upthrust said stack to align an uppermostblade with the blade discharge passage of said tray and in position tobe operatively engageable by said ejector push-piece, and said trayhaving means to hold the contained blades against shifting displacementtherein comprising a pair of laterally opposed upstanding rearwardretainer lugs adapted to engage corner notched rear end portions of theblades and a pair of laterally opposed upstanding forward retainer lugsadapted to engage corner notched forward end portions of the blades,said forward retainer lugs terminating below the plane of the bladedischarge passage of said tray so as to free an uppermost bladetherefrom.

ARTHUR TUERFF. LEONARD C. LOTZ.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the i'lle ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 203,617 Heaton May 14, 18781,892,931 Conner Jan. 3, 1933 1,911,627 Lashar May 30, 1933 2,367,084Auerbach Jan. 9, 1945

